Are You Ready for a HIPAA Audit?
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Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes the subsection known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In addition to its incentives for health care organizations to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), HITECH extended the scope of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Security Rule, increased penalties for failing to protect PHI and increased enforcement for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of AHIMA
دوره 88 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017